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In belle de jour, planner

Belle de Jour Power Planner 2014 #MakeItHappen

Who doesn't like Bell de Jour Planner? Well, I think all bellas like it, especially me. I have been using BDJ planner since I am in college. Now, I am working in the corporate world. Then, I gave my sister a chance to experience it too. Do you want to know the reason why our lovely bellas like it, not just like.. why we LOVE this planner? Because . . .

Here's my reason:

♡ It has everything I need to succeed in this challenging world.

♡ It is very inspirational.

♡ It has tips for everything such as fashion, financial and etc.

♡ Very girly like me
♡ Discount card and coupons

Do you want to know what's inside the most powerful planner? I will give you a tour.

First page, it is already inspiring. Right? It should the words to live by to all Bellas out there for 2014.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

-Harriet Tubman

My blog idea - perfect for blogger's out there like moi.

Dream board - doodle all the things you want to achieve today or the near future.

Goals - well, anything you want to happen for 2014 BDJ planner will help you with it

Coupon tracker - Use all those coupons for discounts and freebies. Gow!

2014 BDJ Checklist - list for challenges for this year

Share happiness - Write down the things you appreciate and grateful to or any happy thoughts

Events Tracker - You can list down all the birthdays, meetings or any special occassion

Menstrual Tracker - Girls can now analyze the behavior of their hormones (left side) and track their menstrual period from and to and if it is heavy, light or normal (right side)

Time to be healthy with "My Health Plan". There is nothing wrong to be healthy as early as now. For long life, Bellas!

Want to write some ideas or compose a poem or just draw? Share it in Random Thought!

This will be the look for day to day planning.

You also have gift tracker, very useful during Christmas.

Bill Tracker (Left Side) and Cash Flow Tracker (Right side) - To help us budget our income.

Inclusive of Belle De Jour Lifestyle Card, coupon holder and cute tiny stickers to put on your planner.

What do you think guys? Time to buy your own Belle de Jour Planner! By the way, I want to thank Belle de Jour for sending this for free. OMGEE! I just can't contain my happiness when I received it. Well, proof that I love their planner for very beginning. Check out my post about BDJ last year. CLICK HERE!

For more information, visit BDJ Social Media sites:

Website: http://belledejourpowerplanner.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BelledeJourPlanner

Twitter: https://twitter.com/BDJBuzz

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If love is like riding a bicycle, then the first few tries must’ve hurt quite a bit. Just like Ramon Bautista of hit web-series Tales from the Friend Zone Zero, maybe you have gone through your share of heartbreaks that made you say “’di na ako naniniwala sa pag-ibig.”

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In contest, fashion

In the Key of Chic Dress

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In fashion, guest post

Best of Spring/Summer 2014 Trends revealed

Spring/Summer is always the right time to look for the trends, because you know most of the styles are going to be around for a few months. Also, after the dark theme of the fall and winter, the summers make way for fresh colours and designs. If you are looking for Spring/Summer 2014 trends, here’s a list of the top picks.

1. Go metallic: While this is not something you haven’t seen before, metallic looks work because the colours are not staples for the summers and spring. The best thing about the current looks is the choice of patterns, which is not restricted to one colour but moves ahead to many shades and even the rainbow hues. There are skirts, dresses and accessories to choose from.

2. Go mesh style: If you are someone who dares to bare, get a good camisole and top it with a transparent or mesh outfit. The more you explore in the designs, the better, but this is one of the best trendy designs for the upcoming season. Black and white are great choices for that more stylish look, but given the fact that pastels are hot options, you can try them as well.

3. Go pastel with the palette: Floral for spring and summer is something we are always used to, which is why the choice of pastel colour as the spring essential is a good welcome change. Seen at most of the designers, the colours are versatile, starting from the beautiful rose and lavender shades to more cool shades of yellow and blue. Pick the single colours or opt for patterns- the choices are varied as ever.

4. Go the crop style: The Crop Tops are one of the hottest properties for spring this year. Spotted in DKNY Spring 2014 Ready-to-Wear Collection among others, the looks are different and stylish by all means. Of course, you need to get in shape for trying the style, but this is totally worth the time you spend at the gym. The black and white combination was something that was seen in most fashion weeks, but if you love the pastel clothes online and on the runways- choose them too!

5. Go white: Just mentioned that black and white have been among the trending colours of the season, but the statement white blouses seemed to be a total hit. Lovely designs and simply cool enough for casual and formal look, this is one look that can be experimented with. While some designers seemed to love the look with embellishments, there were others who styled their models with shirts having necktie detailing. Choose what suits you because the occasion often determines what you wear.

Happy styling for the spring and summer!

[Images Credit: www.instyle.com and www.stylplus.insing.com]

Author: Heidi is fashion expert with humour and style! She is known for being a guest writer for some of the most reputed online blogs and magazines and has been a keen observer of trends and styles. She is often invited for writing on the various fashion shows, where she views the trends from different aspects.

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In fashion, giveaway

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In eat's a date, Filipino food

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In #OOTD, fashion

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In advertisement, photography

San Francisco Wedding Photography

Like the technology of photography itself, the practice of wedding photography has evolved and grown since the invention of the photographic art form. The wedding photography its an industry that evolved fast in the last 2 decades together with the digital and technological development.. The fact that it has become a whole industry has a positive impact on the photographers and on the clients. The competitive market of the wedding photography gives us the opportunity to get to chose the photographers we want, the style that fits us the best and even the cameras and the lights that can make us prettier. A good example of it could be the San Francisco Wedding Photography market. It offers distinct services, prices and styles.

Nowadays, we are all used to see high quality wedding pictures with some different themes and with stunning backgrounds, but it wasn’t the same ten years ago.

Even if the industry is changing constantly, there is something that stays the same, it is the love that brings people together and gives them the ruling passion to organize a celebration of hearts and feelings. So this event, now with all the technology can be captured and transformed into digital characters or framed pictures. Those megapixels have the capacity of caring a lot of fire and love. If you want to jump with the parachute and with your wedding dress on it’s okay, because today even the craziest parachute jump can be transfigured into an image. That image would be the forever win over the world for you. Pictures in water, oceans and pools are not a problem anymore for the cameras. There are more and more couples getting married every day that tend to do something different and they do have the opportunity to do so. Isn’t this one of the coolest things you can show to your kids and grand kids? High resolution photos from the top of Everest, or in the middle of Sahara of you and your hubby when getting married, of course only if you could and want to do so, or the typical wedding portrait but in this awesome high quality. People do realize how big is to have memories and the wedding photos are pure memories that were once our best moments. Because it all goes so fast and the time passes, we are always trying to leave something behind us. Everything else is going to be forgotten, eventually remembered only through our photographs. The wedding is the event that counts the most in our paper photo albums and Facebook albums, once we get married, we tend to give it some kind of special place when it comes to organizing the wedding.

A memory of a great evening that celebrates two people becoming a family it’s definitely a priority when it comes to what we have to remember in the first place, when it all come to an end. Life is short, we have to live it up and keep the best moments alive.

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In advertisement, guest post

New York Photographer. The beauty of the city.

Photographer has a lot of advantages when taking pictures of a city. After all, there are thousands of houses, trees and people, situations, feelings, collisions which you can use for the creation of your masterpieces. Going out to a spacious street and looking around at the sides, you can always find a detail that others failed not notice. Every house, shot from a certain angle, can become a unique, marvelous work of art, every car, standing on an unusual side or having an stupendous color, will stand out among the other, each tree on the background of a skyscraper turns into a majestic silhouette, a beautiful creation of nature. All these things will arise before you like the sun in the East, only if you will be patient and thoughtful enough to see them. Some think that making photos of the city is simple, because the city stands still, there is no need to catch its every glance or a sparkle in its eyes, but it is a delusion. A city, such as New York, for example, is incredible hard to catch on tape, while presented every shadow of a crowdie street, every face of every stranger, the composition and the rhythm – each of these nuances completes the portrait of the city, which trembles and changes every moment.

The best time to shoot for a New York Photographer is early in the morning. When the people, its blood, are not yet flowing down its vein, the streets, the city appears to be peaceful and tranquil. It is the only time, when you can sense the breath of the city itself, as it is, not overflowed by the crowds hungry for emotion, attention, miracles. In the morning you can take advantage of the services of the benevolent nature, which is capable of creating beauty as no man will ever try. The bright, gleaming dew on the leaves of the trees will twinkle and shine with millions of tiny sparks in your photos. The gentle morning sun will illuminate the empty streets of the sleepless city, filling its air with weightless, invisible life energy, awakening New York to another day.

Since there are few cars on the road, you can, for example, photograph the center line on the background of a beautiful fountain or a lone car, lost in the web of urban roads. In general, in the morning in almost no traffic, which helps to concentrate and find the right place for making a masterpiece.

New York views at night are no less beautiful. Especially when the ardent sun hides behind the horizon, but its rays still shine over the skyline of the exhausted city. It can be used as a background or even the central object of the photo, depending on the topic and the character of the work. It is obvious, that the evening light is not enough for a nice and bright picture, so it deprives you of many opportunities in accenting the details or embracing a large panorama. Instead, it gives you unique silhouettes, radiant atmosphere and strikingly beautiful light.

At night the city ceases to look familiar. At night, the conventional solar lighting is replaced by the spotlights and flashlights, and they give off an urban way out of the darkness night.

Broken by the artificial light, the night hides and sneaks in the corners, in the shadows, in the dark doorways, in the tired eyes of the people passing by, in the dark windows of cars, in the faceless glass spaces of the city. This harmony between insane relentless modernity and original, imperishable darkness the camera is able to grasp. The game of the weak light and all-consuming darkness gives unique effects which create such sentiments in the photo which no artificial filter is able to give.

In general, the city is incomprehensibly difficult to photograph correctly. Especially difficult to photograph New York, which continually changes, lives and moves in some exclusive, elusive, perfect pace. It never slows down, never stops even for a moment, so to look into its face is unbearably difficult. This unbearably difficult step can be taken with the help of the photography. It catches the slightest expression, a glare, the spikes, not only slowing down, but stopping the continuous rhythm of the sleepless city for a fraction of a second, making it possible to understand its dark, bright, beautiful, bottomless, endless, diverse soul.

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In advertisement, fashion

How to Survive the Office Christmas Party

An office party can go one of two ways. It can either be a massive hit or, alternatively, completely cringeworthy, resulting in one of your co-workers (hopefully not you) collapsing in a drunken heap and having to deal with the consequences once they have recovered from their unnecessary hangover.

It depends on the environment in which you work in – if you’re all likeminded individuals, the Christmas party can be immensely successful and a perfect chance for you all to let your hair down and celebrate the festivities. There are several ways in which you can survive the party though, making sure that you can leave with your head held high, safe in the knowledge that you haven’t done anything to be ashamed of!

Dress up

Make a little effort, even if it is just a party where you work every day. Pick up a stylish party dress from George or accessorise an outfit to the max so that you stand out. People will see that you have made an effort and will respect you for that. After all, it’s Christmas – why shouldn’t you don your party dress to enjoy the festivities?

Control your drinks

Even if your Christmas party is at a venue with an open bar, don’t go overboard! Bad things can happen when you drink too much – don’t let it happen when your boss or MD is there! Stick to a couple of cocktails and leave it at that – or choose a virgin cocktail and people will think you’re knocking them back, when you’re not! Don’t pull a sickie

So many people will be tempted to call in sick if one too many drinks have been enjoyed but if you have attended a mid-week party, don’t make that call. Even if you have to drink copious amounts of coffee and take a couple of painkillers, make sure that you at least show up.

Go alone

While your invitation may mean that you could take along your other half or another guest, the great thing about office parties is that they give you a chance to mingle with your co-workers and enjoy their company away from the office desk. If you take along your spouse, you’ll be tempted to spend the evening with them, giving you less chance to really enjoy the opportunity.

Don’t talk about work

Talk to people about their hobbies, pastimes and what they’ve been getting up to. If you have a similar taste in films or music, strike a conversation about that so that people know there’s more to life than what goes on in the office. If you’re a parent, a conversation about children is easily done but make sure that the chat isn’t one-sided. Ask plenty of questions, be interested and get to know those co-workers that you don’t usually talk to. Make sure that you keep the balance between enjoying yourself and being sensible – after all, you have to work with these people! The last thing you want is to be the subject of those post-party whispers.

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